The Blackstone · Comeback Kid

151 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 12-18 and 68, and 2 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
THE BLACKSTONE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 49, 73 and 2 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 8-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 151
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 13 sections: 112 keep time, 8 are fills, 16 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-112.

PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART B
PART U
OUTRO
10 groovesOBUMG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Blackstone?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Blackstone hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Blackstone?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 49, 73 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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